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A regular train, a steam train and Soul Train, Belgrave, Victoria
Monday was a train packed day for Mr Cake and I. We were in Melbourne for the week, and on Monday we headed to Belgrave on a (normal) train to ride the Puffing Billy steam train.The Puffing Billy is a lovingly maintained train originally created to service the rural areas in the Dandenong mountains - back before the roads were a reliable way of getting into the hills. In the 50s the line stopped being profitable, but an army of volunteers managed to get the train up and running again about 8 years after it was abandoned.
It's a lovely scenic trip, and the staff (who are almost all volunteers) are all dressed the part as well - makes for a very fun day out. Definitely a tourist activity, but we are tourists here, after all!
The train has five stops, though only one train a day goes all the way to Gembrook, and it's not the one we're on, so the end of the line for us is Lakeside, which is a lovely spot, with some walking tracks, a wee cafe, and a lake (you never would have guessed it!).
As part of the Puffing Billy experience you can have lunch on board - there's a dining carriage - but we opted to check out some of the local fare in Belgrave instead. We popped into Soul Train, as it had an alluring range of baked goodies on the counter (I always approve of that sort of thing!) and the menu looked good.
I ordered a hearty-sounding burger and Mr Cake went for a yummy sounding sandwich/panini. We were a bit ahead of the lunch trade, and there was only one staff member in the cafe - but when we entered we were the only customers. He popped downstairs to the kitchen to put in the order and before too long my burger appeared. By this point there was another group of customers, and he evidently was chief in charge of sandwich making himself, so Mr Cake's lunch took a lot longer to get to us. It was worth the wait though - simple but good, the contents were salami, olives and cheese, and the combination was excellent - good quality ingredient = yummy lunch!
My burger was fantastic. Note the fries inside it; though I often do this myself this is how the burger came! The burger had a hearty beef pattie and bacon, and the salad was on the side so you could make the burger leafy if you preferred. It was a pretty big lunch - Mr Cake helped with the fries while he was waiting for his meal, and I probably shouldn't have finished it (my belly complained a bit!) but it was too good to leave on the plate.
All in all it was a lovely day out, and I recommend both the Puffing Billy and Soul Train if you're in Melbourne - though perhaps if you're like me and a fiend for sweet things you should share a burger, as I didn't have any room left for the biscuits and cakes on display!
Puffing Billy departs several times a day from the Puffing Billy Belgrave Station, 1 Old Monbulk Road, Belgrave, www.puffingbilly.com.au
Soul Train is located at 1698 Burwood Highway, Belgrave, ph 03 9754 3747
hungryandfrozen March 14, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Glad to see your trip's going well, and fries inside the burger - genius!!
I looove fries in burger, I have been doing it myself for years - so good! The trip was great, but sadly we're back now - just living vicariously through my photos. ;-) Yours must be coming up soon - so much more exciting than our little trip!


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Aston Hall Hospital
Aston Hall Mental Hospital sits in the scenic village of Aston-On-Trent in Derby, the hospital dates back to the 1930s and stretches over 3.2 acres. The hospital was purchased by the Nottingham Corporation in 1924 as part of the old Aston Hall estate, since the hospitals conception it has always dealt with patients suffering from mental health problems and learning disabilities. Each of the houses could house up to 50 patients but in later years this capacity dropped as patients where transferred to other hospitals in the area.
Aston Hall boasted a one of a kind leisure centre within its grounds and was the only hospital in South Derbyshire to house a hydrotherapy pool.
In 1998 it was announced that the hospital would close amid fierce opposition from local residents who it to remain open and to continue caring for its then 58 resident patients. The village as locals called it finally closed its doors in 2004.

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Punjab Dental and Medical Colleges Entry Test : Statistics
LAHORE: (APP) More than 56,000 candidates (36,000 female and 20,000 male) will appear in Punjab Medical/Dental Colleges' Entrance Test, to be held on Sunday. The test will be conducted by the University of Health Sciences (UHS).
Punjab government has finalized the arrangements for the test and deputed senior bureaucrats including provincial secretaries, divisional commissioners and BoR members as monitoring officers whereas senior medical professors will conduct the test.
District Coordination Officers (DCOs) of respective districts will act as `focal persons' to look after the arrangements of the test.
The UHS has deputed around 5000 invigilators and supervisory staff for the conduct of the test. The test shall be held simultaneously at 27 centres established in 13 cities of Punjab including Lahore, Faisalabad, Sahiwal, Multan, Bahawalpur, Rahim Yar Khan, Sargodha, Gujrat, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Sialkot, D.G. Khan, and Hasanabdal.
The test will start at 09:00 am and the candidates must reach their respective centres at least one hour before the commencement of the test as all the centres would be sealed at 08:15 AM. and nobody would be allowed to enter after that.
Due to expected rain in some cities, UHS has advised candidates to reach their respective centres early in the morning and also to bring umbrellas or raincoats with them.
In Lahore, there will be seven centres established at the Examination Halls of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Lawrence Road, Examination Halls of Punjab University, Wahdat Road, Government Comprehensive Girls High School, Wahdat Road, University of Education, Township, Lahore College for Women University, Jail Road, Govt. Postgraduate College for Women Samanabad and Government Central Model School, Lower Mall where around 16,800 candidates will appear in the test.
The test shall comprise 220 multiple choice questions (MCQs), divided into four sections namely Physics (44 MCQs), Chemistry (58 MCQs), English (30 MCQs) and Biology (88 MCQs).
Total duration of the test will be two and a half hour and after the test, the candidates will be required to write a separate test comprising questions related to aptitude and feedback.
Extra 30 minutes will be given to the candidates to write this test which would have no weightage in the entrance test score.
Total marks of the test will be 1100. There would be negative marking in the test like previous years and while 05 marks will be awarded for each correct answer, one mark will be deducted for each incorrect answer.
Briefing on the arrangement of the test, UHS Vice Chancellor Prof Gen (R) Prof Muhammad Aslam said that the Punjab government had made immaculate arrangements for smooth and flawless conduct of the entrance test.
The district administration, under the supervision of concerned divisional commissioners and district coordination officers, had finalized the security and logistic plans at their respective centres, Prof Aslam told.
He said that district police officers would be responsible for security and deployment of police personnel at the test centres.
Police would ensure extensive patrolling and technical sweeping of the area before the commencement of the test.
Walk-through gates and mobile jammers would be installed at each centre. Restrictions would be imposed under Section 144 on the entry of unauthorized persons in the premises of examination centres, UHS VC said.
He further said that parents and other attendants of the candidates would be provided comfortable waiting areas near examination centres.
Traffic police had been directed to make proper traffic and parking arrangements to ensure smooth flow of traffic near the examination centres, he said.
Emergency healthcare services will be ensured at all centres which would include fully equipped ambulances, doctors alongwith paramedical staff and emergency medicines.
Moreover, the nearest teaching hospital or district headquarters hospital would be on high alert to meet any emergency.
Arrangements have also been made with power supply companies to ensure uninterrupted electricity supply at all the centres during the test.
UHS has already issued roll numbers and instructions to the candidates. Candidates were not allowed to bring any cell phones, calculators, laptops, watches or notes to the examination centre.
No candidate will be allowed to enter the centre without the copy of entrance test application form duly stamped by the bank and print out of his/her roll number slip.
According to the regulations of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, it was mandatory for a candidate to appear in the provincial entrance test for admission to any public or private medical/dental college of the province.
So the candidates seeking admission to private medical colleges would also have to appear in the entrance test of UHS.


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Joe Kennedy '81
President and CEO Emeritus
Joe Kennedy is the former CEO and chairman of Pandora. Kennedy joined Savage Beast Technologies, Inc., a struggling music technology company, in 2004 as CEO and president, and transformed it into Pandora, now the world's largest internet radio service. He stepped down as chairman, CEO and president in 2013 and has served as an advisor since then. Previously, he served a five-year stint at E-LOAN, where he was president and chief operating officer. From 1995 to 1999, he was the vice president of sales, service, and marketing for Saturn Corporation, which he grew to over $4 billion in revenue and established as the top brand for customer satisfaction in the auto industry. Kennedy holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSE degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton.


CAMDEN, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May. 11, 2012– Campbell Soup Company (NYSE:CPB) invites interested shareowners, investors, members of the media and consumers to listen to and view the slides accompanying its presentation live over the Internet on Wednesday, May 30, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. WHAT: Campbell Soup Company Presentation at the Sanford C….


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7.0 magnitude quake in Mexico, September 7, 2021
Earthquake Military News
This earthquake was first reported as a 7.4.
Energy = 74
Weapon = 74
Nuclear = 74
*Jesus = 74
*Society of Jesus = 79 (7/9 date)
Think of the July 4 earthquake in Southern California, two years ago.
And keep in mind that this September 7, 2021 earthquake came four years to the day of another major quake in Mexico, September 7, 2017. And recall, in 2017, there was an even larger quake on September 19, 2017, the 32 year anniversary of the 1985 Mexico City quake.
97, 25th prime
Earth = 25
Sep 8, 2021, at 7:22 am
TruthSeekerLA on September 8, 2021 at 4:48 pm
Did anyone see the videos of the blue and orange lights before the earthquake happened?
Fernando J. González G. on September 8, 2021 at 9:43 pm
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1035335407/first-came-a-quake-in-mexico-then-strange-blue-lights-people-feared-the-apocalyp
If it were really caused by technology, I think it would be through HAARP, which studies/manipulates/affects the ionosphere, and under a principle known since ancient times: Piezoelectricity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectricity
To understand this principle is as easy as taking a lighter that «sounds», those that use an electric spark to carry out combustion and disarm it will find a small piece with the potential to generate electricity «out of nowhere»: a Piezo ignition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezo_ignition
Materials that exhibit the piezoelectric effect by being «deformed» (literally by vibrating their constituent molecules) release electricity. And the piezoelectric effect can be inverse, that is, if an electric field is applied to a material with this capacity, it would be mechanically deformed (that is, its constituent molecules would be made to vibrate).
Taking into account the above and that quartz —which is the second most abundant mineral in the continental crust, which together with the oceanic crust forms the lithosphere, ¡where we are!, and it is this that is divided into tectonic plates so associated with earthquakes— exhibits the piezoelectric effect, and if an electric field is applied to the lithosphere (abundant in quartz), then it would be mechanically deformed, that is, its constituent molecules would literally be made to vibrate (¿causing an earthquake?).
This is what I think happens when modifying the ionosphere, which would be the source of an electric field capable of exciting the lithosphere.


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Posts Tagged 'Nate Silver'
I've Closed Every Tab I Had Open and I'm Not Sorry Links
* There are no links now. There is only the Orb.
it's too late, he's ascending pic.twitter.com/GRWVRoY7z0
HANNITY: Trump orders everyone to kneel before the Glowing Orb, and the media loses it
GINGRICH: They fear the Orb!
HANNITY: It's pathetic
— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) May 21, 2017
Trump chuckled. "You mean the Chaos Orb?" pic.twitter.com/JCcdeAvQhU
— The Orb Appreciator (@TheBuzzard) May 21, 2017
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Man, how DIDN'T this movie predict our current situation? pic.twitter.com/ZC5OwAMGUn
— Amma Marfo (@ammamarfo) May 22, 2017
Get 'em Bernie pic.twitter.com/zjqleyHljb
— maple cocaine (@historyinflicks) May 21, 2017
jeb bush: [sighing] that's not how you touch the orb
— kev (@kept_simple) May 21, 2017
Ur orb joke is not as funny as trump touchin that orb
— Cullen Crawford (@HelloCullen) May 21, 2017
* Twilight of the NEH.
* Chelsea Manning is free.
* CFP: Suvin Today?, A Roundtable Discussion, The Society for Utopian Studies (November 9-12, 2017 in Memphis, TN).
* CFP: In Frankenstein's Wake.
* Queer Artist Transforms Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower' Into Opera.
* Great literature, by the numbers. The Bachelor/ette, by the numbers.
* But if you read Spencer's three-pronged narrative as Sam Wilson's story, it looks very different. It becomes the story of an impeccably qualified black hero whose time in the spotlight is abruptly cut off by the return of an old white man who once had his position and of a public so thirsty for the moral certainty of the Greatest Generation that it can't see the nightmarish perversion of it that's right in front of them until it's too late.
* Utopia in 2017.
* LARB on the unionization struggle at Yale. A Case for Reparations at the University of Chicago. Crisis at Mizzou. Two sets of universities, two countries, two futures.
* The engine of irrationality inside the rationalists. Why the "Conceptual Penis" Hoax is Just a Big Cock Up. Some Work Is Hard.
So, some old white men who think they're stone-cold rationalists + smarter than everyone else got taken in by a comically transparent scam?
* The Ethos of the Overinvolved Parent: Colleges are adjusting to increasing contact with adults who are more ingrained in their children's lives than ever.
* A brief history of Esperanto.
* Science fiction's new golden age in China.
* Science fiction doesn't predict the future, it influences it.
* The Secret History of William Gibson's Never-Filmed Aliens Sequel.
* Feds use anti-terror tool to hunt the undocumented. Arrests of Undocumented Immigrants Without Criminal Records Spikes 150%.
* The camp is the end of the liberal order, the end of the post–World War II world, the end of human rights.
* Felony charges against inauguration protesters represent 'historic crossroads.' The airport lawyers who fought Trump's Muslim ban are facing a Justice Dept. crackdown.
* Horror in Manchester. Terror in Kansas.
* I thought I understood racism and mass incarceration. But nothing prepared me for what I saw in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
* The Death of the Suburban Office Park and the Rise of the Suburban Poor.
* Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Centre.
* Sheriff Clarke leaving Milwaukee County for position with Department of Homeland Security. Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr.'s departure will be good for department and Milwaukee County. Plainly, indisputably unfit. But not so fast!
* Downward spiral: Special Prosecutor? Independent Counsel? Special Counsel? What's the Difference? Meet Bob Mueller. A forgotten lesson of Watergate: conservatives may rally around Trump. Did Trump Commit a Crime in Sharing Intelligence With Moscow? Trump Gave Russians Secrets News Orgs Are Being Asked To Withhold. Trump's disclosure endangered spy placed inside ISIS by Israel, officials say. Trump aides were in constant touch with senior Russian officials during campaign. Notes made by FBI Director Comey say Trump pressured him to end Flynn probe. Trump straight-up told the Russians he fired Comey to obstruct justice and it just. doesn't. matter. 'He Looks More and More Like a Complete Moron.' Even while I was just trying to put this post together more bombshells dropped: Michael T. Flynn told President Trump's transition team weeks before the inauguration that he was under federal investigation for secretly working as a paid lobbyist for Turkey during the campaign, according to two people familiar with the case. And this one! Flynn stopped military plan Turkey opposed – after being paid as its agent. And this one! It sure seems like Michael Flynn lied to federal investigators about his Russia ties. Shot. Chaser. Donald Trump has committed the exact offense that forced Richard Nixon to resign. Have Trump's Problems Hit a Breaking Point? Articles of Impeachment for Donald J. Trump. "Don't See How Trump Isn't Completely F*cked." Presidential impeachments are about politics, not law. This is the exact situation impeachment was meant for. Let's hurry up. Nate Silver runs the numbers. When Will Republicans Dump Trump? Oh honey. But why not him?
* Meanwhile, on Fox News.
* Understanding the self-pardon.
* This seems fine. This seems fine. This seems fine. This seems fine. This seems fine. This seems fine. This one really does seem fine. This seems fine. This is definitely not fine.
* You think?
* Here at the end of all norms.
* Trump Team Stands by Budget's $2 Trillion Math Error.
* Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago.
* Can the Anti-Trump Resistance Take the Philadelphia DA Office?
* SNL and the profiteers. Trump and the Hall of Presidents.
* MSNBC replaying its Bush-era history note for note.
* I think maybe I want to trade with the Netherlands.
* At least we can still laugh.
*record scratch*
*freeze frame*
POPE: Yep that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation. pic.twitter.com/7RB3z2ByKL
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) May 24, 2017
* Star Trek: Discovery is definitely bad. This single photo proves it! Honestly, though, I thought that aside from the strong leads the new trailer looks cheap and bad, with terrible-looking secondary characters and a narrative I have very little interest in. I was very glad when The Incomparable explained to me that none of this had anything to do with the actual plot of the show.
* If The Last Jedi Really Has the Biggest Reveal in Star Wars History, What Could It Be? I'm hoping the poster is wrong, rather than (the only possibility) they're making Luke bad.
* On Twin Peaks.
* The Secret History of Dragonlance.
* Jordan Peele's Next Project Is a Terrifying Lovecraftian Story About Race in 1950s America.
* Today in making fascism fun: 1Password's new Travel Mode.
* Arctic stronghold of world's seeds flooded after permafrost melts. The end of the penguins. Miles of ice collapsing into the sea. Scientists say the pace of sea level rise has nearly tripled since 1990. The Greening of Antarctica.
* Millennials and their damned avocados.
The best thing about our economic system is how effortlessly it transitioned into literal vampirism pic.twitter.com/jtL1GkWYvs
— Hippo (@InternetHippo) May 20, 2017
* Don't Like Betsy DeVos? Blame the Democrats.
* It wasn't just petty infighting that tanked Hillary Clinton's campaign. It was the lack of any coherent program for the country. But don't worry! There's a plan.
* Laura Kipniss is apparently being sued for Unwanted Advances. The book seemed to be absolutely begging for a lawsuit; if the publisher wasn't absolutely scrupulous it was extremely negligent.
* A Very High Degree of Certainty in Future Military Operations: H.R. McMaster and the tragedy of American empire.
* Being Timothy Zahn.
* Maybe let's not gene-sequence human intelligence.
* Can capitalism survive the rise of the machines?
* Statement of Teaching Philosophy. And on the pedestal these words appear. The circle of life. One fear. So you want to write a book. Why work so hard.
* Listen to what science teaches us, people!
* And the circus is (finally) closed.
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Tuesday Morning Links!
* The course descriptions for Marquette's Fall 2017 English classes are up at the department website. Check them out! I'm teaching Tolkien and a grad seminar on utopia.
* Also in Marquette news! Marquette to host 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' conference in April.
* Becoming a parent forces you to think about the nature of the problem — which is, in a lot of ways, the problem of nature […] the realities of aging and sickness and mortality become suddenly inescapable. […] [My wife] said something during that time I will never forget. "If I had known how much I was going to love him," she said, "I'm not sure I would have had him." Mark O'Connell on transhumanism and immortality.
* From the great Ali Sperling: Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene. And this review of Alan Moore's Jerusalem from the great David Higgins!
* Adam Roberts reviews New York 2140. Another review, from a climate scientist. And an interview with Stan. My review comes out in LARB this weekend…
* The Most Cringeworthy Monuments to Colleges' Innovation Jargon.
* Perverse outcomes: UC Berkeley deletes 20,000 audio and visual lectures in the name of compliance with the ADA.
* Speculative Fiction and Survival in Iraq.
* Is it really so hard to understand that when your students go broke just trying to graduate they aren't exactly moved to donate later?
* The liberal arts at Harvey Mudd College, whose graduates out-earn Harvard and Stanford.
* You-might-be-from-Wisconsin-if at Ask MetaFilter.
* President Roosevelt signed the order on February 19, 1942, almost exactly 75 years ago. By spring, American citizens would be arriving at the Fresno and Pinedale camps: our neighbors.
* Wisconsin is apparently harassing trans state employees.
* Chaos, again. This is fine. Even James Comey. Twilight of Reince Preibus. Ten Questions for President Trump. Ten More Questions for President Trump. Remember when it was scandalous that Obama, years before he became a politician, once sold his house?
* It is through the Justice Department that the administration is likely to advance its nationalist plans — to strengthen the grip of law enforcement, raise barriers to voting and significantly reduce all forms of immigration, promoting what seems to be a longstanding desire to reassert the country's European and Christian heritage. It's not an accident that Sessions, who presumably could have chosen from a number of plum assignments, opted for the role of attorney general. The Department of Justice is the most valuable perch from which to transform the country in the way he and Bannon have wanted. With an exaggerated threat of disorder looming, the nation's top law-enforcement agency could become a machine for trying to fundamentally change who gets to be an American and what rights they can enjoy.
* The emerging effort — dozens more rules could be eliminated in the coming weeks — is one of the most significant shifts in regulatory policy in recent decades. It is the leading edge of what Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump's chief strategist, described late last month as "the deconstruction of the administrative state."
* "Forever war, but too much."
* An Afghan family of five that had received approval to move to the United States based on the father's work for the American government has been detained for more than two days after flying into Los Angeles International Airport, a legal advocacy group said in court documents filed on Saturday. Profiles of immigrant arrested in Austin. Thousands of ICE detainees claim they were forced into labor, a violation of anti-slavery laws. (Note this lawsuit was filed in 2014.) This Stunningly Racist French Novel Is How Steve Bannon Explains The World. And if it were a book, it'd seem laughably contrived: A letter written in 1905 by Friedrich Trump, Donald Trump's grandfather, to Luitpold, prince regent of Bavaria. Resisting ICE. Here we go again.
* 4chan and the Great Meme War.
* Russia and the Cyber Cold War.
* And while we're on the subject: The Basic Formula For Every Shocking Russia/Trump Revelation. I think this is a very good reminder of the need to stay calm and detached from the chaos of the news cycle.
* Instead, a new model is proposed: the president keeps everyone in a constant state of excitement and alarm. He moves fast and breaks things. He leads by causing commotion. As energy in the political system rises he makes no effort to project calm or establish an orderly White House. And if he keeps us safe it's not by being himself a safe, steady, self-controlled figure, but by threatening opponents and remaining brash and unpredictable— maybe a touch crazy. This too is psychological work, but of a different kind.
* Democrats keep trusting demographics to save them. It hasn't worked yet — but maybe this time…
* NASA unveils plan to give Mars an 'Earth-like' atmosphere.
* House Republicans Unveil Bill To Repeal Obamacare. The GOP health bill doesn't know what problem it's trying to solve.
If the market does it, it isn't systematic mass murder.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 7, 2017
* Austerity measures don't actually save money. But they do disempower workers. Which is why governments pursue them in the first place.
* No! It can't be! Researchers have found strong evidence that racism helps the GOP win.
* Losing West Virginia.
* Contrary to What You Learned in Sex Ed, You Can Get Pregnant While Pregnant.
* Mid-decade gerrymander in Georgia.
* Autism and Addiction.
* What We've Learned from Giving Dolphins LSD.
* In a world first, a teenager with sickle cell disease achieved complete remission after an experimental gene therapy at Necker Children's Hospital in Paris, researchers say.
* Possible lynching outside Seattle, in 2017.
* The end of suburbia.
* In the richest country in human history, children have "lunch debt."
* The only way in which a game is guaranteed to end is when the player abandons their device. Everything else is game design.
* "These devices don't have emotional intelligence," said Allison Druin, a University of Maryland professor who studies how children use technology. "They have factual intelligence." How millions of kids are being shaped by know-it-all voice assistants.
* Finding a jury of your peers in a racially segregated society.
* A colony in a nation.
* Divination hasn't disappeared; it's taken over the world.
But these second-order obstacles aren't enough to explain the current collapse of poll-driven political certainty. They're just excuses, even if they're not untrue. Something about the whole general scheme of polling—the idea that you can predict what millions of undecided voters will do by selecting a small group and then just simply asking them—is out of whack. We need to think seriously about what the strange game of election-watching actually is, in terms of our relation to the future, our power to choose our own outcomes, the large-scale structure of the universe, and the mysteries of fate. And these questions are urgent. Because predictions of the future don't simply exist in the future, but change the way we act in the present. Because in our future something monstrous is rampaging: it paces hungrily toward us, and we need to know if we'll be able to spot it in time.
When I said that opinion polls are sibyls and soothsayers, it wasn't just a figure of speech. Opinion polling has all the trappings of a science—it has its numbers and graphs, its computational models, its armies of pallid drones poring over the figures. It makes hypotheses and puts them to the test. But polls are not taken for what they are: a report on what a small number of people, fond of changing their minds, briefly pretended to think. Instead, we watch the tracking graphs as if the future were playing itself out live in front of us. The real structure of the electoral-wonk complex is more mystical than materialist: it's augury and divination, a method handed down by Prometheus to a starving and shivering humanity at the faint dawn of time. Behind all the desktop screens and plate-glass of his office, the buzz of data and the hum of metrics, Nate Silver retreats to a quiet, dark, and holy room. He takes the knife and slits in one stroke the throat of a pure-white bull; its blood arcs and drizzles in all directions. He examines its patterns. And he knows.
* There's a never-ending fount of stories you can write about when someone is breaking away from canon or not, and create many controversies all the way through preproduction and production and even until a movie opens, about whether or not they're breaking canon. Is it a blasphemous movie or not? At some point, you gotta stop and say, Is there this expectation that it's like we're doing Godfather Part I and II, only it's going to nine movies? And we're just gonna cut them into this kind of Berlin Alexanderplatz that never ends? We're gonna suddenly take a moment to really savor the fact that these movies exist in an identical tone? The reality to me is that you can't have interesting movies if you tell a filmmaker, "Get in this bed and dream, but don't touch the pillows or move the blankets." You will not get cinema. You will just get a platform for selling the next movie on that bed, unchanged and unmade. James Mangold on Logan.
* The making of The Silmarillion.
* And we have but one choice: the Ring must be destroyed.
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Friday Links!
The death of the academic job market really makes the MLA a kind of Children of Men situation.
— Karl Steel (@KarlSteel) January 5, 2017
* Speaking of which! This Saturday morning! Infinite Jest at 20! Join us!
* In my mailbox: Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and the Environment. I'm a contributor; my word was "addiction."
* Four Futures: using science fiction to challenge late stage capitalism and Thatcher's "no alternative."
* CfP: The 14th Annual Tolkien Conference at University of Vermont.
* Rebekah Sheldon: Save Us.
* How did the Soviet Union imagine 2017?
* When Colleges Rely on Adjuncts, Where Does the Money Go?
* Another Big Drop in History Majors.
* Make College Football LD Again.
* A mystery player causing a stir in the world of the complex strategy game Go has been revealed as an updated version of AlphaGo, the artificial-intelligence (AI) program created by Google's London-based AI firm, DeepMind.
* GOP legislators in Wisconsin basically want line-item approval over syllabi at this point.
* Obama Leaves the Constitution Weaker Than He Found It.
* Registered Voters Who Stayed Home Probably Cost Clinton The Election.
* James Joyce and the Jesuits.
* Republicans want to kill the mortgage interest deduction. So I'm bankrupt now, I think.
* House Republicans revive obscure rule that allows them to slash the pay of individual federal workers to $1.
* But while cinephiles have long become used to shelling out their hard-earned wonga to watch the same movie several times over, a new interview with the editors of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hints that Hollywood's habit of regurgitation goes further than we imagined. It reveals the film's initial "cut", designed to map out the movie before any shooting took place, was cobbled together by editor Colin Goudie using footage from hundreds of other existing films.
* George Lucas Can't Give His $1.5 Billion Museum Away.
* Princess Leia Was Going to Play a Large Role in Star Wars: Episode IX.
* Some details on the supposed twelve-movie plan for Star Wars I'd never seen before.
* On chicken intelligence.
* Today in "virtually": The storage chamber would be much deeper than Lake Huron and the company says there is virtually no chance of radioactive pollution reaching the lake, which is less than a mile away. This is a nice variant on the theme: Democrats to Fight Almost Any Trump Supreme Court Nominee: Schumer.
* Teaching the controversy: MIT Researchers Say 2016 Didn't Have More Famous Deaths Than Usual. Give 2017 some exciting room to expand.
* We don't, in fact, know what works in teaching composition. This one was more polemical, but good too I thought: The costs of social capture.
* Among other things, whiteness is a kind of solipsism. From right to left, whites consistently and successfully reroute every political discussion to their identity. The content of this identity, unsurprisingly, is left unexamined and undefined. It is the false foundation of the prototypically American model of pseudo-politics.
* The Troublesome Women of Sherlock.
* Modularity and the Seinfeld theme.
* A horrific hate crime in Chicago.
Every event feels like potential Reichstag fire. The OSU attack, this Chicago kidnapping, the situation in Whitefish, MT. On the precipice.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 5, 2017
* Drugs and the spirit of the times.
* Trump vs. the CIA: whoever wins, we lose. Donald Trump's Twitter Account Is A Security Disaster Waiting To Happen. And then there's this.
in the future, every superpower will be ruled by an unhinged narcissist for fifteen minutes
* How in Milwaukee's cold hell did we only get #7?
* And the Monty Hall Problem, explained.
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Rage, Rage against the Dying of the Links
* Some of my own stuff from the weekend: Making America Great Again with Octavia Butler and the formal, official, can't-take-it-back-now release of Octavia E. Butler in Kindle, hardback, and paperback. CFP: Buffy at 20. Jaimee's election poem at the New Verse News: "Donald Trump, Kate McKinnon, Leonard Cohen."
* CFP: Capital at 150. CFP: Marxist Reading Group: Genre and the Crisis of Narrative.
* Jerome Winter on the new space opera.
* Other books I'd rather be reading: In a Galaxy 90 Miles Away: The View from Cuban Science Fiction. No Mind To Lose: On Brainwashing.
* How I Wrote Arrival (and What I Learned Doing It). A Ted Chiang profile in The Guardian.
* A history of Chinese science fiction. An Islam and Sci-Fi Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson.
* The Two Americas.
* www.holyfucktheelection.com
The margin was so small that everybody's ego-preserving rationalization can look like the determinative factor. Hard outcome to learn from.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) November 12, 2016
* Shirtless Trump Saves Drowning Kitten. The Trump Meltdown Begins. There is no way to predict where this is heading. (Okay, maybe we can predict a little bit.) How Trump Won. The counties that flipped parties to swing the 2016 election. It probably wasn't voter suppression (except maybe in Wisconsin). We have 100 days to stop Donald Trump from systemically corrupting our institutions. Yeah, good luck. It Can't Happen Here in 2016. The Plot Against America in 2016. Sixteen Writers on Trump's America. Preparing for the Worst: How Conservatives Will Govern in 2017. Trump takes to Twitter to blast 'hater, loser' children; vows retribution. Where the Democrats Go From Here. How to Build an Exit Ramp for Trump Supporters. Amazing what a week can do. Blue Feed, Red Feed. Abolish the Electoral College. Post-Election College Grading Rubric. Google Emoluments Truth. The nine liberals you meet in hell.
* He might as well try: Obama Can and Should Put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court.
* Hillary Clinton's Vaunted GOTV Operation May Have Turned Out Trump Voters. The Democrats' Real Turnout Problem. Clinton Aides Blame Loss on Everything but Themselves. Comey! The Clinton Campaign Was Undone By Its Own Neglect And A Touch Of Arrogance, Staffers Say. Epic. This didn't have to happen. They Always Wanted Trump: Inside Team Clinton's year-long struggle to find a strategy against the opponent they were most eager to face. Twilight of the Messageless Candidate. Blame the Clintons. Obama after Obama. Whatever happened: The whole Democratic Party is now a smoking pile of rubble. 2009: The Year the Democratic Party Died. The decimation of the Democratic Party, visualized. Does the Democratic Party Have a Future? Well, have you met the Democrats? The Worst Possible Leader at the Worst Possible Time. These are the key governors' races the Democrats will blow in 2018. Blueprint for a New Party.
Harder even than disentangling from election season cult of personality will be re-processing Obama era as failure rather than triumph. https://t.co/eZBYqYIRs3
"Yup. That's me. I bet you're wondering how I ended up in this situation." pic.twitter.com/lrjaR82U2B
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) November 10, 2016
But my core principle here is that any conclusion Dems draw that isn't about their own bad choices is destructive.
* DNC Aiming To Reconnect With Working-Class Americans With New 'Hamilton'-Inspired Lena Dunham Web Series.
* From the archives: Umberto Eco on Ur-Fascism.
* Historians under Hitler. When Hitler Pivoted. Autocracy: Rules for Survival. What Is The "Alt-Right"? A Guide To The White Nationalist Movement Now Leading Conservative Media. Prepare For Regime Change, Not Policy Change.
Obama walking through the ruins of democracy feels a bit on-the-nose at the moment. pic.twitter.com/x7DiL5sFCy
— Brendan Sasso (@BrendanSasso) November 17, 2016
* Why FiveThirtyEight Gave Trump A Better Chance Than Almost Anyone Else. More from Nate's Twitter. And from another angle entirely: Things look an awful lot like they would if we decided elections by coin flip.
* So many more examples could be given, but it's getting late, and one general takeaway from the 2016 Election seems clear: our popular media, from those producing it to those sorting it with editors and algorithms, are not up to the task of informing us and describing reality. This won't happen, but those people who got Trump sooo consistently wrong from the primaries to Election Day should not have the job of informing us anymore. And if you were surprised last night, you might want to reconsider how you get information.
* The New Inquiry has been all over the Trump Resistance. Waking up in Trump's America. Lose Your Kin. Against Extinction. Fuck. The Gamble. And the struggle goes on: "Thanksgiving is the festival of white reconciliation."
Sabotage worked, and case for Trump illegitimacy is far stronger than against Obama. Build left-liberal consensus for maximum refusal now. https://t.co/N70tM7i8a3
* No President. What a proper response to Trump's fascism demands: a true ideological left.
* Richard Rorty, 1998.
* Do any laws bind electors to vote along with their state? Not really. But this cuts both ways, and basically ruins any sort of "hack the Electoral College scheme" from the jump too. Meanwhile, let's hack the Electoral College, because what could possibly go wrong.
* Truly, only the superrich can save us now.
* Beginning to look a lot like Christmasttime: UPS strike. O'Hare strike.
* Rise of the Sanctuary Campus.
* And yet, to my knowledge, no one has explained clearly enough that globalization is over, and that we urgently need to reestablish ourselves on an Earth that has nothing to do with the protective borders of nation-states any more than the infinite horizon of globalization.
* Being Productive in Scholarly Publishing: Advice from Jason Brennan. No one said you'd like it.
* A GoFundMe for SEK's medical bills. I only wish the prognosis were better.
* The New Intellectuals: Is the academic jobs crisis a boon to public culture?
* Title IX is effectively finished, at least in its current form. More here. "College" as a concept may not be all that far behind.
* On toxifying, rather than repealing, the ACA.
* Trump Will Have Access To Personal Info Of "Dreamers" For Deportation Efforts. This precise possibility, of course, was raised as an objection to Obama's action at the time.
* Democrats, 2016, preserving the state, and the man of lawlessness.
please calm down. we are a nation of laws and like it or not the sentinel program is law now. pic.twitter.com/WY7b3122J1
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) November 14, 2016
* After a tweet blaming this all on Bill Clinton, Steve Shaviro provided a time-travel novel to soothe my pain: The X-President.
* The coming Democratic defeat on infrastructure.
* What Women Used Before They Could Use the Law.
* Trans in Trump's America.
* Passing the baton.
* I want things to be different.
* This world is so messed up. Let's go do something good.
* How to Reverse Engineer Smells.
* The Official November 2016 Guide for Making People Feel Old.
* The 100-Year-Old Man Who Lives in the Future.
* Why kids need recess.
* Fact-checking doesn't 'backfire,' new study suggests. Calling people racist might, though.
* Harry Potter and the Conscience of a Liberal.
* What if X-Men were a Gothic novel?
* Calexit.
* The economists are leveraging their academic prestige with secret reports justifying corporate concentration. Their predictions are often wrong and consumers pay the price.
* Next crash brewing.
* Huge, if true: Report finds many graduate students are stressed about finances.
* An Oral History of My So-Called Life.
* The Fate of Reading in a Multimedia Age.
* I think I did this one a few months ago, but at least somebody has a plan: Optimal search path for finding Waldo.
* We asked eighty-six burglars how they broke into homes.
* New research suggests the Earth's climate could be more sensitive to greenhouse gases than thought, raising the spectre of an 'apocalyptic side of bad' temperature rise of more than 7C within a lifetime. With Trump's election I think any hope of solving this without geoengineering is over, and perhaps all hope period.
* The North Pole is a mere 36 degrees warmer than normal as winter descends. Give it a chance!
* Stephen Hawking says we've got about 1,000 years to find a new place to live. So you're saying we have 999 years before we even need to think about this.
* But it's not all bad news! Blood from human teens rejuvenates body and brains of old mice.
* And the thrilling conclusion to the thisisfine.jpg trilogy, truly the epic of our times.
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Catching Up on My Open Tabs After an Incredibly Slow News Week in Which Nothing World-Historically Bonkers Happened
* CFP: And Now for Something Completely Different: Critical Approaches to Monty Python.
* CFP: The Films of Wes Anderson.
* Three on Dylan, Nobel Laureate. The Guardian reports.
breaking news Nobel Prize goes to prize committee's sense that literature is over
— Sarah Brouillette (@brouillettese) October 13, 2016
They're gonna give the Nobel to Pixar by 2030, don't kid yourself.
— Aaron Bady (@zunguzungu) October 13, 2016
After much consideration my position on this event is that I'm formally opposed, but nonetheless personally delighted.
* Barack Obama for first president of the Federation.
* Le Guin in the Post, the Nation, and the New Yorker.
* PKD and the Problem of 2-3-74.
* An adjuncting career, by the numbers.
* Idiots Who Run Harvard Let Their Low-Wage Workers Go On Strike.
* 4 Professors Involved in Philosophy Brawl Find Feces in Their Mail.
* With Campus Carry in Place, Some Texas Grad Students Make Bars Their Offices.
* Why a Controversial Palestinian History Class at Berkeley Was Cancelled, Then Reinstated.
* I make a brief appearance at the end of this CBS58 story on Marquette's incredible Tolkien collection. I also pop up in this review of the first few episodes of Westworld.
* The Trouble with Thanksgiving.
This schedule creates a natural mid-semester break. And if adopted soon, that break would occur next week. Let's get to work. I don't think it's too late.
* Arrested Development Season Five (not really). Women Are Defeating Donald Trump. All of Donald Trump's Accusers: A Timeline of Every Alleged Grope and Assault. Gerrymandering helped Republicans take control of Congress, but now it's tearing them apart over Trump. A Trump collapse could give Democrats back the House. Here's the math. Inside the Bunker. Inside the Meltdown. How One 19-Year-Old Illinois Man Is Distorting National Polling Averages. Trump, the GOP, and the Fall. Let's never forget what a terrifying thing we almost did. Your Surgeon Is Probably a Republican, Your Psychiatrist Probably a Democrat. I guess I need a new surgeon. If professors made $500k/year, would they be Republicans? U.S. government officially accuses Russia of hacking campaign to interfere with elections. The Evan McMullin Century. A GOP strategist explains why the Republican Party is about to break in two. Even the Humane Society. Teach the controversy. Thank you for your idea about a political thriller but unfortunately we find the plot preposterous. Michelle Obama for President. And because we're all still asking: What Happens If Trump Drops Out?
Here's what the map would look line if only women voted: https://t.co/sjVY67qouE pic.twitter.com/rrc3GuXmGl
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 11, 2016
Trump igniting national consensus that presidential candidates can't be prosecuted seems like the first genuinely strategic thing he's done.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) October 10, 2016
* Citizens United, all class.
* Eugenics in America.
* As a national prison strike enters its second month, the Department of Justice says it will investigate conditions in Alabama prisons. And some corrections officers are expressing support.
* Louisiana isn't letting immigrants get married.
* New Jersey Transit, a Cautionary Tale of Neglect.
* "We'd at least like to have it said of us that we tried": Marvel and the civil rights movement.
* How Rock and Roll Became White.
* Atlanta's lost Afrofuture.
* Brutalism is back.
* "When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using artificial intelligence."
* Department of Precrime, CIA edition.
* The search for a true blue M&M.
* Whatever this is for, I am so completely in.
Now that's how you do a movie poster. pic.twitter.com/js6lYRVK46
— Fanton (@FantonEsquire) October 5, 2016
* Meanwhile, the Fantastic Beasts expansion of the Harry Potter franchise will top out at an economical and reasonable five films.
2 Fantastic 2 Find
Fantastic Beasts: Rising
Fantastic Beasts: The Finding
Fantastic Five
— Erin Strecker (@ErinStrecker) October 13, 2016
* Star Trek explained by epic poetry.
* The four types of board games.
* Golden Girls Action Figures Are Here.
* Life with migraines.
* I was pregnant, and then I wasn't.
* Generation Adderall.
* Poet at work.
* The end of Devin Faraci and the end of The Canon podcast (for now). There's more at the Mary Sue.
* Huge, if true: Tech billionaires convinced we live in the Matrix are secretly funding scientists to help break us out of it.
"Billy Bush" was ridiculous enough, but now there's a "Lauren Bush Lauren." The simulation is obviously crashing.
And on the subject of deranged tech madmen: Simpsons did it.
* Liquid assets: how the business of bottled water went mad.
* The reaction that would give us clean fossil fuels forever.
* The coming fight over "nonlethal neuroweapons."
* What's the Longest Humans Can Live? 115 Years, New Study Says. Challenge accepted.
* Now, I may have to move first.
Sometimes, a graph is so eloquent that commentary is superfluous:https://t.co/IYPqRkkWZx pic.twitter.com/QVsYrooDd7
— Dylan Wiliam (@dylanwiliam) October 10, 2016
* The kids are all right: Only 1 in 5 Millennials Have Ever Tried a Big Mac.
* On Delany's Dark Reflections.
* App of the week: Really Bad Chess.
* The Perils of Becoming a Meme.
* The LEGO Yellow Submarine.
* Finally my condition has a name.
* And I told you, Mom: Science Says the First Born Child Is the Most Intelligent.
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Weekend Links!
* Marquette announces new January session. And I'll be teaching! A hybrid literature/creative-writing section of ENGLISH 2010 called "Crafting the Short Story."
* Marquette's provost has also premiered a podcast.
* Our friend Nina has a piece in the New York Times today.
* CFP: Symposium on Amazing Stories: Inspiration, Learning, and Adventure in Science Fiction.
* Me, this Saturday afternoon at the Milwaukee Public Library! 150 Years of H.G. Wells in Milwaukee.
* Perhaps, instead of being a parable of Christian salvation, the randomness of the Genius Grants is really a metaphor for our increasingly fragmented and pointless civilization. I didn't get one either.
* But here's someone who did! UWM theater artist Anne Basting wins MacArthur Foundation 'genius' grant.
* Palestine, Settler Colonialism and Democratic Education at UC Berkeley.
* Can the adjunct speak?
* If we're serious about preventing catastrophic warming, the new study shows, we can't dig any new coal mines, drill any new fields, build any more pipelines. Not a single one. We're done expanding the fossil fuel frontier. Our only hope is a swift, managed decline in the production of all carbon-based energy from the fields we've already put in production.
* But that's not all: Climate change is ruining fall.
* Experts say.
* 500 Million Yahoo Accounts Hacked. I'm shocked, and disappointed, and the Chinese spammers who stole my data from Yahoo three years ago are shocked and disappointed too.
* Why Trump's Shady Foundation Practices Are A Major No-No In The Charity World.
* Trump has used his campaign to funnel a mere $8.2 million to his businesses.
* Right now, Clinton is over the line by exactly one state. As of this writing, that state — what we also call the tipping-point state — is New Hampshire. But a group of states are closely lumped together, and Pennsylvania,Colorado and Wisconsin have all taken their turn as the tipping-point state in recent weeks.
* How Trump Could Will Win the Debate.
* Exciting new translation of The Brothers Karamazov will change the way you think of the book. A few others.
* New research shows that all present-day non-Africans can trace their origins to a single wave of migrants who left Africa 72,000 years ago, and that indigenous Australians and Papuans are descended directly from the first people to inhabit the continent some 50,000 years ago. That makes them world's longest running civilization. Some more details here.
* December 1969, the month that killed the 60s.
* Duncan Jones is finally making Mute, set in the Moon universe.
* The last days of Roger Ailes.
* Cheating and the SAT.
this thread 😱 https://t.co/Wfz4iLAlhO
— nalīnī edwin (@_nalini_) September 23, 2016
* Facebook overstates its advertising effectiveness by a mere 60-80%.
* Black Lives Matter Fall 2016 Syllabus.
* Bibliography on Workplace Harassment in Postsecondary Education.
* The X-Men and the Legacy of AIDS.
* who among us has not etc.
* And Nathan Fillion speaks the forbidden truth: Don't Bring Firefly Back.
This is the scariest letter I have ever received pic.twitter.com/POwxQuzxuj
— David Grossman (@davidgross_man) September 22, 2016
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Seven Pounds of Sunday Links in a Three-Pound Bag
* If you missed it, my contribution to the thriving "Star Trek at 50″ thinkpiece industry: "We Have Never Been Star Trek." And some followup commentary on First Contact and the Rebootverse from Adam Kotsko.
* Elsewhere: To Boldly Imagine: Star Trek's Half Century. 13 science fiction authors on how Star Trek influenced their lives. 50 Years of Trekkies. Women who love Star Trek are the reason that modern fandom exists. What If Star Trek Never Existed? In a World without Star Trek… The Star Trek You Didn't See. How Every Single Star Trek Novel Fits Together. What Deep Space Nine does that no other Star Trek series can. Fighter Planes vs. Navies. Fifty years of Star Trek – a socialist perspective. Star Trek in the Age of Trump. Star Trek Is Brilliantly Political. Well, It Used To Be. Sounds of Spock. A Counterpoint. Catching Up with Star Trek IV's Real Hero. The Workday on the Edge of Forever. A few of the best images I gathered up this week: 1, 2. And of course they did: CBS and Paramount Royally Screwed Up Star Trek's 50th Anniversary.
Happy birthday #StarTrek50, celebrating fifty years of unforgettable fashion for men. pic.twitter.com/LpWHv39ozU
— RedScharlach (@redfacts) September 8, 2016
* And some more Star Trek: Discovery teasing: Time to rewatch "Balance of Terror." And Majel might even voice the computer.
* Deadline Extended for the 2016 Tiptree Fellowship. The Foundation Essay Prize 2017.
* CFP: Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction. Editors David M. Higgins and Hugh Charles O'Connell. Call for Chapters: Transmedia Star Wars. Editors Sean A. Guynes and Dan Hassler-Forest.
* Not a CFP, but I'm glad to see this is coming soon: None of This is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer.
* Polygraph #25, on sound and the modes of production, is now available.
* Tolkien once said that fantasy can't work on stage. Katy Armstrong argues that The Cursed Child only works on stage. Harry Potter and the Conscience of a Liberal.
* On Utopia and Reaction.
* Poetry and Class Struggle.
* This LARB essay on scholars fighting about King Lear is as spellbinding as everyone said.
* Here is a list of things that I am including in this book. Please send me my seven-figure advance. An Easy Guide to Writing the Great American Novel.
* Concerns Over Future of UMass Labor Center.
* Lockout at LIU. The Nuclear Option. Unprecedented. This is the first time that higher-ed faculty have ever been locked out. Lockout Lessons. Students Walkout. As Lockout Continues at Long Island U., Students Report Meager Classroom Instruction. This has been, to say the least, an amazing story.
7. Otherwise, what Middle States is saying is that all a university is is a bunch of buildings, a bank account, and administrators.
— Jacob Remes (@jacremes) September 10, 2016
* Decline of Tenure for Higher Education Faculty: An Introduction.
* Salaita's Departure and the Gutting of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois.
* Inmates Are Planning The Largest Prison Strike in US History. 'Incarcerated Workers' stage nationwide prison labor strike 45 years after 1971 Attica riot. Your Refresher on the 13th Amendment.
* The long, steady decline of literary reading. History Enrollments Drop. Werner Herzog Narrates My Life as a Graduate Student. My dirty little secret: I've been writing erotic novels to fund my PhD.
* Quebec's massive student strikes emerged from an organizing model that constantly trains new generations of activists.
* Retirement Plan Roulette.
* The First Trans*Studies Conference.
* Donna Haraway: "Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene."
The unfinished Chthulucene must collect up the trash of the Anthropocene, the exterminism of the Capitalocene, and chipping and shredding and layering like a mad gardener, make a much hotter compost pile for still possible pasts, presents, and futures.
A bit more here.
* Elsewhere in the Anthropocene: Montana declares state of emergency over pipeline spill, oily drinking water. The Gradual Atlantis (and see Dr. K.S. Robinson for more). Fast Fashion and Environmental Crisis. The Planet Is Going Through A 'Catastrophic' Wilderness Loss, Study Says. The Oceans Are Heating Up. A Monument to Outlast Humanity. New genus of bacteria found living inside hydraulic fracturing wells. And from the archives: Louisiana Doesn't Exist.
* The Joyful, Illiterate Kindergartners of Finland. What Should a Four-Year-Old Know? How to Raise a Genius.
* Michael R. Page on the greatness of The Space Merchants. Bonus content from University of Illinois Press: Five Quotes from Frederik Pohl.
* The problem with this reasoning, at least as it relates to graduate students, is that we have had fifty years to find out if unions destroy graduate education. They don't.
* How Unions Change Universities. Scabbing on Our Future Selves.
* Of Moral Panics, Education, Culture Wars, and Unanswerable Holes.
* The Death of ITT Tech, Part One: What Happened?
* Audrey Watters on the (credit) score.
* Clemson's John C. Calhoun Problem. And Jack Daniels's.
* Welcome to Our University! We're Delighted to Have You, But If You Think We're Going to Cancel the Ku Klux Klan Rally, You've Got Another Think Coming. Cashing in on the Culture Wars: U Chicago.
* The things English speakers know, but don't know they know.
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— Matthew Anderson (@MattAndersonBBC) September 3, 2016
* Raymond Chandler and Totality.
* Writing Like a State.
* Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde.
* Capitalist Saboteurs.
* Why 'The Stranger' Almost Didn't Get Published.
* It's Getting Harder and Harder to Deny That Football Is Doomed.
* After Richmond Student Writes Viral Essay About Her Rape Case, the University Calls Her a Liar.
* Milwaukee vs. Pikachu. The World's Most Dangerous Game: Pokémon's Strange History with Moral Panics.
* Weapons of Math Destruction: invisible, ubiquitous algorithms are ruining millions of lives.
* British artist Rebecca Moss went aboard the Hanjin Geneva container ship for a "23 Days at Sea Residency." But the company that owns the ship went bankrupt on August 31, and ports all over the world have barred Hanjin's ships because the shipping line is unable to pay the port and service fees. Artist-in-residence stuck on bankrupt container ship that no port will accept.
* Christopher Newfield talks his new book on the collapse of the public university, The Great Mistake.
* Bill de Blasio's Pre-K Crusade.
* The Plight of the Overworked Nonprofit Employee.
* FiveThirtyEight: What Went Wrong?
* The Lasting Impact of Mispronouncing Students' Names.
* The law, in its majestic equality: Black Defendants Punished Harsher After A Judge's Favorite Football Team Loses.
* Fred Moten on academic freedom, Palestine, BDS, and BLM.
* Being Nadja Spiegelman.
* The Night Of and the Problem of Chandra.
* The Book of Springsteen. Relatedly: Bruce Springsteen's Reading List.
* Defining Unarmed.
* New research suggests that humans have a sixth basic taste in addition to sweetness, sourness, saltiness, bitterness, and umami. It's starchiness.
* Against Theory.
Differently from philosophy, which functions under long, frustrating timings, and very rarely reaches any certainty, theory is quick, voracious, sharp, and superficial: its model is the "reader," a book made to help people make quotations from books that are not read.
* The largest strike in world history?
* The Walrus has an absolutely wrenching piece on stillbirth.
* How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead.
* "Science thought there was one species and now genetics show there are four species," Dr. Janke said. "All zoos across the world that have giraffes will have to change their labels."
* The Mysterious Ending of John Carpenter's The Thing May Finally Have an Answer.
* Teach the controversy: No Forests on Flat Earth.
* The clash of eschatologies.
* Wisconsin appeals Brendan Dassey's overturned conviction.
* Abolish the iPhone. How Apple Killed the Cyberpunk Dream. It's not much better over there.
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— Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) September 9, 2016
* Atwood and comics.
* The NEH's chairman, Bro Adams, tries to make a case for the humanities. Is anyone listening?
* Britain isn't doing a super great job with Brexit.
* No other image has better captured the struggle that is simply living every day: Drunk Soviet worker tries to ride on hippo (Novokuznetsk, in Kemerovo, 1982). Yes, there's still more links below.
* The DEA vs. Kratom. Why Banning the Controversial Painkiller Kratom Could Be Bad News for America's Heroin Addicts.
*Never-Ending Election Watch: How Donald Trump Retooled His Charity to Spend Other People's Money. Trump pays IRS a penalty for his foundation violating rules with gift to aid Florida attorney general. A Tale of Two Scandals. That Clinton Foundation Scandal the Press Wants Exists, But they Won't Report it Because it's Actually About the Trump Foundation. Inside Bill Clinton's nearly $18 million job as 'honorary chancellor' of a for-profit college. No More Lesser-Evilism. And Vox, you know, explaining the news.
* Dominance politics, deplorables edition.
* And put this notion in your basket of deplorables: Darkwing Duck and DuckTales Are in Separate Universes and This Is Not Okay.
* How Fox News women took down the most powerful, and predatory, man in media.
* Yes, Here Comes Trump TV.
* Corporal Punishment in American Schools.
* Black Teachers Matter.
* I say jail's too good for 'em: US library to enforce jail sentences for overdue books.
* Bugs Bunny, the Novel, and Transnationalism.
* Understanding Hellboy.
* The Perilous Lure of the Underground Railroad. The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes.
* What's the Matter with Liberals?
* Alan Moore Confirms Retirement from Comic Books. An interview in the New York Times where, lucky for me, he talks a lot about David Foster Wallace.
* The Need For Believable Non-White Characters — Sidekicks, Included.
* What Your Literature Professor Knows That Your Doctor Might Not.
* Geologic Evidence May Support Chinese Flood Legend.
* Fully Autonomous Cars Are Unlikely, Says America's Top Transportation Safety Official.
* Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal roundup: The Clockmaker. Science Journalism. I Am No Longer a Child. Teach a Man to Fish. How Stress Works. On Parenting. You haven't hit bottom yet. Keep scrolling!
* Today in unnecessary sequels: Mel Gibson confirms Passion Of The Christ sequel. And elsewhere on the unnecessary sequel beat: We Finally Know What the Avatar Sequels Will Be About.
* At least they won't let Zack Snyder ruin Booster Gold.
* Poe's Law, but for the left? Inside the Misunderstood World of Adult Breastfeeding.
* The Revolution as America's First Civil War.
* Mike Konczal on Eviction.
* What Happens When We Decide Everyone Else Is a Narcissist.
* 45,000 Pounds of Would-Be Pennies Coat Highway After Delaware Crash.
* 'Illegal' Immigration as Speech.
* Second Thoughts of an Animal Researcher.
* Conspiracy Corner: Obama and the Jesuits.
* On Sept. 16 the opera "Happy Birthday, Wanda June," based on Vonnegut's play, will have its world premiere in Indianapolis. A dayslong celebration of, and reflection on, the best-selling author's works called Vonnegut World will precede it.
* The Unseen Drawings of Kurt Vonnegut.
* The Science of Loneliness. Loneliness can be depressing, but it may have helped humans survive.
* Once more, with feeling: On the greatness of John Brunner.
* Let us now praise Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
* Look Upon My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: Man Dies, Leaving Behind a Sea Of Big-Boobed Mannequins. Yes, it's a Milwaukee story.
* Play The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Video Game Free Online, Designed by Douglas Adams in 1984.
* Taking a Stand at Standing Rock. Life in the Native American oil protest camps.
* Earth First: The Musical.
* The Subtle Design Features That Make Cities Feel More Hostile.
* Hitchens wept.
* Rebel propaganda. All the Ewoks are dead.
* Finally.
* Salvador Dali Illustrates Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
* Where the Monsters Are. The Wonderful World of Westeros.
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Alphabetical list of voters for the township of Wolford in the electoral district of the north riding of the county of Leeds and the north riding of the county of Grenville : made pursuant to an act of the Ontario Legislature intituled "An Act respecting voters' lists".
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One Last Post from Super Bowl XLVIII: Do Championships Define a Player's Greatness?
Russell Wilson reflects on Seattle's Super Bowl win. Photo by Chris Murray.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.—With the Seattle Seahawks 43-8 thrashing of the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII, the talk in social media, sports-talk radio and the various 24-hour cable sports networks has centered around the legacy of Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning.
The current narrative among sports fans these days is that the more championship rings you have the greater you are as a player. Of course, you will have someone saying the Manning's greatness is now diminished because he didn't get that second Super Bowl ring.
Of course, whenever I am in these discussions on social media or even sports-talk radio, I often point out the absolute silliness of that notion in team sports because it takes more than one player to win.
Pointing out to sports fans that it takes teams to win a championship is the equivalent of your mother telling you to eat your nasty-tasting vegetables because it's good for you.
I think the popularity of this notion in the current era comes from one Michael Jordan who helped to lead the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships. Never mind that he had help from teammates like Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman, Jordan is the face of those championships.
That mindset has invaded the ultimate team sport that is football and this is the stuff you see in the ongoing vilification of Manning after losing to Seattle. The former Tennessee star has one Super Bowl ring, but it's never enough for the limited, narrow scope of fans who are bedazzled by the glow of the ring or the trophy.
What they often fail to understand or maybe they don't want to understand is the collective effort that it takes to get to win that championship.
There are a lot of great players in football who never won or even played in a championship game. Yet, in the eyes of various sports media types, the jockocracy, and fans, not winning a title somehow takes away from a player's greatness.
During this past Super Bowl Week, I asked some prominent members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame if it was fair to tie a player's greatness to the amount of championship rings he has or the lack thereof.
Then I asked Irvin what about guys like Dan Marino, Don Fouts or Barry Sanders? Those guys were Hall-of-Fame players who never won a championship. Surely their greatness is not diminished by their lack of rings, right?
"A Tom Brady couldn't play defense, but can Tom Brady get a little more out of the guys that are playing defense? Is Tom Brady reaching and associating with guys in a way that brings more out of them?" Irvin asked rhetorically.
Cris Carter, a 2013 Hall of Fame inductee and an outstanding receiver for the Minnesota Vikings would beg to differ with Irvin on that one. He said the notion of a great career being diminished because of lack of a Super Bowl ring is something created by the media.
Carter said it's easy for Irvin to say championships define greatness because he played on a Cowboys team that had Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Larry Allen—all of whom are Hall of Famers.
Former New England Patriots linebacker and ESPN football analyst Tedy Bruschi was a part of three Super Bowl winners. I thought he would share Irvin's sentiment, but he didn't.
As fans we have a weird kind of Drum Major Instinct when it comes to our athletes because we all like the glitz and the glamour of the guy who stands out in the crowd. In football and for that matter any sport, the guy who stands out does so because he stands on the shoulders of his teammates who are holding him up.


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Lot happening in Asian Rugby League at the moment with the ASEAN Super League and Philippines Estepa-Elefante Cup both kicking off and the Hong Kong and Japanese seasons to start soon.
Estepa-Elefante Cup: Third edition of the Philippines National Club competition has four teams, North Luzon Hunters, Cavite State University Tigers, Manila Storm and Clark Brothers.
Women's Rugby League: Currently there is a Development clinic happening in Ubon where so far well over 50 Women have taken part and will finish with Thailand's first ever full 13-a-side Women's competition match tomorrow when the Moon River Wildcats take on the Mukdahan Blue Birds.
I am particularly interested to note two more team from Laos. I was aware that the Mekong Fireballs were playing teams from over the border in the north-eastern region of Thailand, but three teams suggest there is some real development going on within Laos itself.
Paske and Savannakhet sit on opposite sides of the Mekong to Ubon and Mukdahan and were chosen strategically to keep traveling to a minimum with the Zone.
Savannakhet took part in last year's ASEAN International Nines in Pattaya, whilst Paske will be playing their first Games in this competition.
The Mekong Fireballs are still around, but being based in Vientiane makes it a long trek to the Isaan teams.
Hope for 2020 is to build a conference around Vientiane, with possibly Udon Thani and Nong Khai. Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai are the other region hoping to establish a conference next year as well.
It all looks very promising.
What I do like is that, in many cases, development seems to be very much linked with empowering some of the less prosperous communities; notably so with the women's initiatives.
Ubon Wild Bees have defeated Mukdahan Blue Nagas 64 - 12 in the opening game of the Mekong Zone.
Does the NRL have much resonance in this part of the world?
What I have found surprising about this development is that looking at photos of clubs/games is the notable lack of ex-pat Aussies . I'd naively assumed that the development was fuelled by the Australian backpacker community.
God forbid, they'd decide to do it on their own!
Expat Aussies have been known to have Asian heritage.
Let's just say the current people behind it have learnt from past mistakes... after all this certainly isn't the first attempt taking the code to Thailand.
All clubs and the regional leagues are pretty much 100% locals. The 'foreign' element is the ASEAN Rugby League who is working with the respective Isaan, Eastern, Central, Lana and Laos Federation of Clubs, who is helping raise funds, send equipment and help find volunteers like Rodney Joyce, to run Development clinics, coaching, trainer and referee courses and so on.
Whilst that is not to say expats can't and won't get involved on the ground in South-East Asia, the preference is for the sport to be adopted and run by the people of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, etc.
So amazingly back in 2010 an Under 16s tournament was played in Bali. Now despite the then IRLF falling over, a number of those participants didn't fall out of love in the game, and now almost a decade later those players are behind the new NRL Indonesia Federation.
The NRL Indonesia Federation will look to run a club competition this year as well as the International Nines in November.
Last year's ENWC say the Philippines and Poland clash in the tournament Trophy Final. After the match (which Poland won 14-10) both nations agreed to try and help each other out a bit more.
Well this is Poland fulfilling their part of the agreement with a Rep team set to tour in October.
JRL's first true venture into trying to sell the code to the youth of Japan. The South Ikebukuro Rugby League Academy will host training sessions for Primary & Secondary students twice a month.
All good news items. Come on RL next stop Olympic Games.
000s of kids playing Union in Singapore. A huge set up. Maybe a dozen adult teams as well.
My lad lives in Singapore and I repeatedly urge him to try and get something going out there, but my pleadings fall on deaf ears. TBF, he says he'd get involved, but wouldn't do the first steps.
I was out there last year and found plenty of bars showing NRL action so there must be some interest.
Come on Son (Number 17?) we need you!
Theres a bit of interest from the Aussies but thats about it.
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